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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2008 | Buster Keaton | Christie's | New York | ||||
sculpture
167.6 x 129.5 x 68.6 cm (66 x 51 x 27 in)
polychromed wood
numbered and dated 'AP 88' (on the underside of the base)
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Private collection, Athens
Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 11 May 2006, lot 30
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler; New York, Sonnabend Gallery and Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Banality , November 1988.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie International , November 1988-January 1989.
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation , May-August 1989.
Trento, Museum di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, American Art of the Eighties , December 1991-March 1992, p. 60 (illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Portland Art Museum; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo and Miami Art Museum, Let's Entertain Life's Guilty Pleasures , February 2000-November 2001, p. 246, no. 4 (illustrated). Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons , June-September 2003, p. 71 (illustrated in color).
New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of Twenty-Five Years , April-June 2004, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated in color).
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley museet for moderne kunst, Jeff Koons: retrospektiv , September-December 2004, p. 89 (illustrated in color). Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons , May-September 2008, p. 64 (another example illustrated).
R. Mahoney, "Miracle on W. Broadway," New York Press , New York, 9 November 1988, p. 15.
K. Levin, "The Evil of Banality," Village Voice , 20 December 1988, p. 115.
"Collaborations, Martin Kippenberger-Jeff Koons," Parkett , no. 19, p. 32 (illustrated).
A. Muthesius, Jeff Koons , Cologne, pp. 119 and 121, no. 21 (illustrated).
J. Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook , New York, 1992, p. 159.
M. Spiegler, "How Many Buster Keatons Does it Take to Fill an Art Gallery," ArtNews , September 2004, p. 121 (illustrated).
H. W. Holzwarth, Jeff Koons , Köln, 2007, pp. 273-275 (illustrated in color).
H. Bourdeaux-Martin, "Profile-Dominique Levy," Whitewall , Winter 2008, p. 42 (illustrated in color).
Jeff Koons (b. 1955)
Buster Keaton
numbered and dated 'AP 88' (on the underside of the base)
polychromed wood
66 x 51 x 27 in. (167.6 x 129.5 x 68.6 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is the artist's proof outside of an edition of three plus one artist's proof.
